Cultura, educação e identidade na sociedade multicultural

The contemporary societies so-called developed, where Portugal fits, are undergoing a process of rapid acceleration, partly due globalization phenomenon, with its focus on progress, that has opened the world to an infinity of possibility and interpretations. The social identity is not unrevealed to these phenomena. It is located in time and space. Absolve all transformations and takes up the tones of the time that stands, assuming the new concepts, practices, subjectivities, standards, languages, meanings, etc. The text presented here, we seek unravel the contemporary portuguese identity, situating it in Europe, which share common principles and values. For this, we used data from the last edition of the European Values Survey, namely data the 2008 for Portugal, from which was possible to inquire about how the portuguese position themselves in relation to racial and ethnics differences present in Portugal. Specifically we tried to understand if the portuguese are aware of cultural diversity and somehow this interfere in the selfhood that define the Portuguese people. The data analysis allowed to hold two plausible readings: if on hand we realize that a significant
part of the portuguese not showing bothered with the presence of other people and culture in the country, considering until they should enjoy equal opportunities, have the possibility to nationalize and to integrate social and professionally, on other hand the portuguese deposited also in the
immigrants the reason for same of the problems which the portuguese society has been confronted, more specifficaly, increased crime, lack of same jobs and the burden of social security.